[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Yet another batch of warning fixes :->

[Alan Young]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:00:38 +0100 Arpi <arpi at thot.banki.hu> wrote:
>
> > Just wondering, but it might work on Alpha. (which ran a native version of 
> > NT4.0) (NOTE: this is speculation) I may mess around with it in a few days. 
> > (Hope NTFS support is still in the kernel!) 
> 
> Even if NT4 works on alpha, i doubt that m$ and other companies released
> their video & audio codecs for that arch...

There are/were a few codecs that came with NT Alpha and
the few releases of Media Player that were Alpha native.
The last dates on the native files I have are from 1999.
By that time FX!32 handled (sometimes slowly) the running of
the x86 code on the Alpha.  For instance, Indeo 5 and Quicktime 4 & 5
could be played pretty well after a few translation passes with
FX!32.
 
> > Aside: there seems to be an issue with the realplayer .sos on alphas, which I 
> > haven't looked into much. 
> > Is there any 32-bit centric (or x86-centric) code in there that would prevent 
> > this?
>
> dunno. probably there are little differences in interfaces, for example the
> win32 realplayer DLLs don't load under linux, due to some differences in
> parameters. We need to do more rev.eng. of real codecs.
> 
> You could try the TOOLS/realcodecs/ wrappers with realplayer for alpha to
> see what's happening there.

I played around with the Alpha binaries of real player a couple
of months ago.  I could get sound to work, but not the video.
I do recall having to make a kludge to mplayer to get the library
to load because of broken glibc compatiblilty with atexit.

Alan